Build a Safe Read-Only SQLite MCP Server on macOS

The read-only Postgres MCP server built its safety on the database server: a SELECT-only role, a read-only transaction, a statement timeout, all enforced by a process on the other side of a socket. SQLite has none of that machinery. There is no server, no accounts, no GRANT. The database is a file, the engine runs inside your process, and any connection that can open the file read-write can do anything to it. ...

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